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    There's nothing to appeal. This case is shut and dry.

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    Execution set for killer of game warden in Wharton County

    By St. John Barned-Smith
    The Houston Chronicle

    Nine years have passed since James Garrett Freeman, 35, led law enforcement officers on a chase across Wharton and Colorado counties, reaching speeds of 130 mph.

    The chase ended some 90 minutes later at a cemetery in Freeman's hometown of Lissie, where he fired dozens of rounds at officers with a pistol and an AK-47, killing Justin Hurst, a 34-year-old Texas game warden.

    Freeman was shot four times before officers apprehended him.

    What started as a routine investigation into reports of someone firing a rifle off the side of a Wharton County road is scheduled to end today with Freeman's execution.

    His prosecution was Wharton County's first death penalty case since 1979.

    The incident began the night of March 16, 2007, near Freeman's home. Hurst and another game warden were checking on night hunters.

    Hurst's colleague heard a gunshot and approached Freeman's pickup.

    Freeman, then 26, fled, with Hurst's colleague in pursuit.

    Wharton County sheriff's deputies, constables and Department of Public Safety troopers chased Freeman through Wharton County and part of Colorado County. Hurst joined in after intercepting Freeman and setting up a roadblock.

    Victim died on birthday

    The chase ended early the next morning after officers spiked the tires of Freeman's truck and he stopped by a cemetery, where a firefight ensued.

    "It just didn't make a lot of sense," recalled former Wharton County District Attorney Josh McCown, who prosecuted Freeman on capital murder charges. "It just went from a small incident into a capital murder. … And you know, it was pretty devastating for his family and also very hard on the family of the defendant."

    McCown and Kelly Siegler, a Harris County assistant district attorney who served as a special prosecutor in the case, said Freeman had anger issues.

    At trial, they showed jurors dashcam video of Freeman running from his pickup on a dark rural road and firing at officers chasing him.

    Siegler told jurors Freeman emptied all 11 rounds from a Glock .357-caliber pistol, then grabbed a semi-automatic AK-47 rifle from his truck and continued firing at officers.

    Two of the shots struck Hurst. He was flown to Hermann Memorial Hospital-The Texas Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead on his 34th birthday. Hurst is survived by his wife and infant son.

    Reached at their home in El Campo, Hurst's parents declined to comment on Freeman's impending execution.

    Officers still haunted

    On Jan. 12, the Supreme Court declined to review Freeman's case, according to federal court records.

    A lower court in December declined a motion from Freeman's attorneys seeking additional time.

    If carried out today, Freeman's execution will be the second this year in Texas, following the Jan. 20 execution of 43-year-old Richard Masterson.

    Hurst was the 16th game warden in Texas to die on the job. His death has haunted former colleagues, many of whom are expected to attend the execution.

    "The murder of Game Warden Hurst is still a painful memory for many of our officers," said Josh Havens, spokesman for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. "Simply put, Justin was a great game warden. He took his oath to serve and protect to be more than just a job - it was a way of life for him. He was incredibly smart, showed deep compassion for conservation law enforcement and the communities he served in. For the men and women of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, it is an honor to consider him a Texas game warden."

    Stanley Schneider, one of Freeman's attorneys, called dozens of witnesses who attested to the former welder's character. Schneider argued Freeman had been trying to commit "suicide by cop" and had been severely depressed, following a previous arrest for drunken driving that had caused him to lose his driver's license for two years.

    "It was a real tragedy because two good young men … I mean, two families were destroyed," Schneider said. "It's so sad."

    Patric Schneider, no relation to the attorney, who graduated a few years ahead of Freeman at East Bernard High School, remembered him as a quiet and polite student.

    "He never seemed a person who would up and go shoot somebody," he said. "It was real shocking for the entire community."

    Father visits son

    Jim Freeman, who runs a welding shop in Lissie, still visits his son most weekends.

    Looking back, he said he believes his son was more depressed than he realized, and that Freeman had difficulty finding a career he was passionate about.

    "He enjoyed life, and he enjoyed his friends, and they all got along together," he said, remembering Freeman watching football with friends, going boating and kneeboarding, or shooting clay pigeons and barbecuing.

    He acknowledges his son's actions but said they were "out of character" and wonders why and how the responding agencies responded as heavily and forcefully as they did.

    "If things had gone a little bit different, things wouldn't have escalated to this point," he said. "And we wouldn't be here where we're at now, and maybe Justin Hurst wouldn't be gone either."

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    No appeals planned for man set to die for officer's death

    HOUSTON (AP) — No late appeals are expected for a man who is set to be executed for a Texas game warden's death during a 2007 shootout.

    James Freeman's scheduled lethal injection would be the second in as many weeks in Texas, which carries out capital punishment more than any other state. The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month refused to review Freeman's case, and his attorney, Don Vernay, said he doesn't plan any new appeals to try to block the execution from happening Wednesday in Huntsville.

    The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday declined a clemency petition from Freeman.

    Freeman was suspected of illegally hunting at night from his truck in Southeast Texas' Wharton County when a game warden spotted him. Freeman sped away, leading authorities on a 90-minute chase that reached 130 mph. It ended near a cemetery not far from his home in Lissie with Freeman stepping out of his disabled pickup truck and shooting at officers.

    He emptied his 11-shot .357-caliber handgun, then switched to an AK-47 assault rifle with a 30-round clip.

    When it was over, Freeman had been shot four times and Justin Hurst, a Texas Parks and Wildlife game warden who had joined the March 17, 2007, chase, was fatally wounded. It was Hurst's 34th birthday.

    Steve Lightfoot, an agency spokesman who knew Hurst, said the married father of a 4-month-old son represented "the very essence of what this agency is about and what game wardens are about."

    "He was very passionate in his role concerning the state's resources and protecting those resources," Lightfoot said.

    Eighteen Texas game wardens, including Hurst, have died in the line of duty since game wardens began enforcing conservation laws in 1895. Hurst had been with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for 12 years, the last five as a game warden.

    Hurst was an alligator and waterfowl specialist before moving to law enforcement. A state wildlife management area where he once worked in Brazoria County and about 60 miles south of Houston now carries his name.

    Vernay said Freeman's lack of a previous criminal record should have influenced jurors he didn't deserve the death penalty, which in Texas requires a jury to find a capital murder offender would be a continuing threat.

    "This is a troublesome case," the appeals lawyer said. "He never did anything wrong in his life other than a DUI. This kid was not a future danger, he was just a loser. ... He got drunk and got in a shooting."

    A psychologist testifying at Freeman's trial said Freeman told him he drank about nine beers while watching a football game on TV at his home and then decided to drive around and shoot snakes and birds that night — something he enjoyed doing.

    Freeman's trial lawyer, Stanley Schneider, said heavy alcohol use and severe depression led the unemployed welder to try to commit "suicide by cop" in his confrontation with officers.

    "It was totally senseless," Schneider said of the fatal shooting. "It really is very sad that it happened, that two families are suffering like this."

    Prosecutors convinced jurors that Freeman had an uncontrollable and unpredictable temper. He was on probation after being convicted of driving while intoxicated, and it was about to be revoked because he had failed to comply with the terms, court records showed.

    Freeman, 34, is one of at least eight Texas prisoners with execution dates in the coming months. Last year, Texas lethally injected 13 convicted killers, accounting for nearly half of the 28 executions carried out nationwide.

    http://amarillo.com/news/2016-01-27/...officers-death

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    The state of Texas has executed James Garrett Freeman for the 2007 murder of Wharton County Game Warden Justin Hurst.
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    Wharton County man executed in killing of game warden

    HUNTSVILLE_ James Garrett Freeman, a Wharton County man who nine years ago shot and killed Texas Game Warden Justin Hurst, was executed Wednesday evening.

    Freeman's execution was the second of nine scheduled in Texas in the first half of 2016, following the Jan. 20 execution of 43-year-old Richard Masterson. In 2015, the state carried out 13 executions, nearly half of the 28 across the country that year.

    The execution closed a series of events that began in 2007, when a Game Warden tried to stop Freeman, now 35, for illegally hunting at night

    In the days prior to his execution, Freeman, who was declared dead at 6:30 p.m., spent his time sleeping, speaking with his family and friends, cleaning his cell, and reading. On two separate occasions, he refused breakfast.

    Around mid-day, Freeman was transferred to a holding cell outside the execution chamber in the Huntsville Unit from his former cell in the Polunsky Unit it Livingston. Earlier in the day, he visited with family and friends. Jason Clark, spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, who visited with him, said he seemed "unemotional."

    Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court declined to review Freeman's case, according to federal court records. There were no new developments or potential filings, Don Vernay, one of Freeman's post-sentencing attorneys, said in an email.

    A lower court in December declined a motion from Freeman's attorneys seeking additional time. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles Monday afternoon turned down a commutation request from Freeman, in a unanimous 7-0 vote, said Raymond Estrada, the board's director of public information.

    Freeman and his attorneys had argued in his appeals he received inadequate legal counsel in 2008.

    The then-26-year-old Freeman, fled, leading the warden - and half a dozen other officers - on a circuitous chase on paved and gravel roads through Wharton and Colorado counties, which ended 90 minutes later by a cemetery in his hometown of Lissie, after a DPS trooper punctured his tires with a spike strip.

    In a brief firefight that lasted less than a minute, Freeman fired nearly 40 shots from a Glock pistol and an AK-47 at the pursuing law enforcement officers - including Wharton County Sheriff's deputies and constables, DPS troopers and Game Wardens, according to court records.

    Two of the shots struck Hurst, another Game Warden who'd joined in the chase. Hurst was pronounced dead soon after being flown to Memorial Hermann-The Texas Medical Center. He had been a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department employee for 12 years, 5 as a game warden, and died on his 34th birthday, leaving behind his wife and 4-month-old son.

    The stunning murder tore through rural Wharton County, home to some 40,000 residents, and which had not been site of a death penalty case in almost 30 years.

    In trial, prosecutors Josh McCown and Kelly Siegler, a Harris County attorney acting as special prosecutor, portrayed Freeman as quick-tempered, and jurors heard testimony that Freeman was prone to outbursts of anger, after which he could not remember his actions.

    His defense attorney, Stanley Schneider, argued that Freeman had been trying to commit "suicide by cop" and been depressed, following a series of alcohol-related offenses that had caused his driver's license to be suspended for 2 years.

    In previous court proceedings, Freeman and his attorneys asked the trial be held in a county other than Wharton, where they said he would be unable to get a fair trial. He also argued the evidence presented to the jury was not sufficient enough to prove he was a "future danger," one of the thresholds required for a death penalty sentence.

    Hurst is one of 18 game wardens to die on the job since 1895. Josh Havens, a TPWD spokesman said Hurst's slaying remains "a painful memory" for many of the agency's officers. Dozens of game wardens and retired wardens were gathered Wednesday outside the prison in support of Hurst's family.

    Among the dozens of law enforcement officers gathered at the execution was Wharton County Sheriff Jess Howell.

    "Justin was a very good friend to law enforcement to everybody, to law enforcement in our community," said Howell, who was sheriff at the time and who was accompanied by five officers from his department.

    "When this happened, its just a tragedy that hurt every one of us down to our heart, its just unbelievable," he said. At the time, three of his officers were involved in the chase.

    Hurst's parents and brother also were among those who had gathered at the prison but but were not going to witness the execution, Clark said.

    Jim Freeman, James Freeman's father, previously told the Chronicle his son's actions were "out of character."

    http://www.chron.com/news/houston-te...me-6788802.php
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    Cops, Cop-Killers, and Texas Executions

    The State of Texas arguably has America's most active capital punishment system in America, and the express lane to our death chamber is to murder a cop. This is where we come in. This in not a specific motorcycle group. We are all members of different law enforcement motorcycle clubs, from different agencies but today we have one common purpose. To support the family of a fallen officer and to welcome his murderer to his final Judge. On a chilly Wednesday afternoon, over a dozen members of the Thin Blue Line, the Blue Knights and other law enforcement motorcycle clubs gathered for a special tribute.

    On Saturday March 7, 2007, Game Warden Justin Hursch was murdered by James Warden. In November 2008, Warden was sentenced to death by a Wharton County jury and he now sits in a Texas Department of Corrections facility in Huntsville TX, awaiting his execution.

    Just past 4:30pm on January 27, 2016, we ride to a spot off of I-45 and link up. The riders are over 90% cops, current or retired. Like any group that hasn’t met in a while, we talk to pass the time while waiting for other members to arrive and the ride to begin. Discuss things from the last time we’ve met, the job, family, football. The conference championship games from the past weekend and the Super Bowl coming up.

    We have all types here, police from large and smaller towns, country sheriff’s deputies and constables, state troopers. In a previous execution in January 2014 we had riders from as far as Louisiana and New Mexico. To those not a part of the Brotherhood of Police, it’s hard to understand. A man or woman you don’t know from a city or town you never heard of is murdered in the line of duty, it’s a family member who’s gone down. In the excellent novel by Lawrence Sanders, The First Deadly Sin, the protagonist, Captain Edward X. Delaney, describes it:

    ...He knew that when a cop was killed, all cops became Sicilians. He had seen it happen: a patrolman shot down, and immediately his precinct house was flooded with cops from all over the city, wearing plaid windbreakers and business suits, shields pinned to their lapels, offering to work on their own time. Was there anything they could do? Anything?

    It was a mixture of fear, fury, anguish, sorrow. You couldn’t possibly undress it unless you belonged. Because it was a brotherhood, and corrupt cops, stupid cops, cowardly cops had nothing to do with it. If you were a cop, than any cop’s murder diminished you. You could not endure that.

    We start our ride a little after 5:00pm and Huntsville is just around an hour north of Houston.

    The State of Texas executes on Wednesday evenings, at just past 6:00pm. Don’t ask why, I have no idea, I guess when Old Sparky was still in operation they had a good generator. And the evening is cold (Yes Yankees, 50 degrees is cold for us Southern Boys) and we ride up.

    Arriving in Huntsville around 5:45pm, we assemble on the east side in front of the prison. On the west side there are a small group of protestors, counting down the names of previous death row. They are here whenever Texas executes, but we are here only for the cop killers. And the cop’s brothers are here. There are dozens of game wardens and other officers present from various agencies to support the family. They have been waiting for this night for 9 years. And justice was not denied.



    At around 6:10pm the word came down, the execution was proceeding. If you want a good overview of the procedure, I can recommend the National Geographic special Inside Death Row. I have no doubt there were lawyers working till this moment for a stay; it was not to be. At least this family didn't have to wait for decades. The family of Houston Police Officer Guy Gaddis had to wait for almost two decades for his murderer to be executed.

    In previous cop killer executions officers in the death chamber told us they can hear us easily. And the man of the hour is hearing it as justice is served.

    Just past 6:30pm people start walking out and one of the officers calls “All officers and colors! Present arms!” The family is walking out. And they walk by, first to the fellow officers, then to us, thanking us for our attendance and support. A humbling experience, knowing this mother, having experienced every parent’s worst nightmare, is now thanking us.

    And we listen to the protestor condemning Texas for her 533rd execution since late 1970. But our task is done for the moment. The next cop killer is scheduled for execution in April. And we will be here. As I said to one of Warden Hursch’s friends, this won’t bring him back. But he may rest a little more peacefully.

    I am the police, and I'm here to arrest you. You've broken the law. I did not write the law. I may even disagree with the law but I will enforce it. No matter how you plead, cajole, beg or attempt to stir my sympathies, nothing you do will stop me from placing you in a steel cage with gray bars. If you run away I will chase you. If you fight me I will fight back. If you shoot at me I will shoot back. By law I am unable to walk away. I am a consequence. I am the unpaid bill. I am fate with a badge and a gun...

    Brian Taylor: End of Watch introduction.

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    Dozens of game wardens and retired game wardens gathered outside the prison awaiting the execution of James Garrett Freeman.


    My first execution

    My editor sent me to watch a man die last week.

    Around 1 p.m. Wednesday, I grabbed a couple of notepads and my laptop and drove 70 miles through rolling pines to Huntsville with one of my colleagues.

    In 2007, James Garrett Freeman, then 26, had been hunting possums late at night in Wharton County, 50 miles southwest of Houston. A Texas game warden had tried to stop him. Freeman fled in his pickup, leading the warden and officers from three other agencies on a meandering, 90-minute chase, before finally stopping and firing 38 shots at the officers, killing 34-year-old Justin Hurst.

    The jury there sentenced him to death.

    In the days before the execution date, I wrote an advance. I called the game wardens, Freeman's lawyers, and the parents of his victim. Then I called Freeman's dad. Normally, these calls aren't that difficult. But this was one I hadn't made before -- calling a father to ask about the impending execution of his son. I stammered and sounded like an idiot at first. But we ended up talking for 20 minutes, and after that, I couldn't help thinking about how devastating this would be for him.

    As a crime reporter, I've covered plenty of robberies, rapes and murders. One responsibility of our paper is to cover the actions of the state, particularly when it takes the ultimate action against one of its citizens.

    I'd be lying if I didn't admit I was nervous about witnessing my first execution. I kept wondering what it would be like, and thinking about my own mortality.

    As I made eggs before I left, I thought about Freeman's last breakfast, and what he was thinking. Texas has little patience for cop-killers, or in this case a game warden. Freeman's appeals to the state parole board and to various federal courts had all been denied.

    In Huntsville, the Walls Unit, a massive, red brick prison, dates to the 1840's. Texas executioners have killed more than 500 people there over the last 30 years. The beautiful day seemed surreal. The air was cool and dry, the sun already waning in a mostly cloudless, piercing blue sky when we arrived around 2:30.

    The corrections spokesman, Jason Clark, a slim, goateed former TV reporter, ran me through the drill and gave me a list of the witnesses and a timeline of Freeman's last few days at the prison.

    He'd refused meals a couple times and spent time reading and talking to his family.

    Around 5 p.m., I went outside. Dozens of game wardens and law enforcement officers had gathered, bunched in a cluster in front of the prison, dressed in their khaki uniforms and white cowboy hats.

    They mingled with each other, speaking quietly. Such execution day gatherings, I learned, are not uncommon among law enforcement.

    A couple hundred yards down a hill, 11 protesters held signs and yelled anti-death penalty chants through a bullhorn. "The state shouldn't be killing people," one woman told me.

    Another heard that this was my first execution. "You'll never be the same," she said.

    We walked into the prison just before 6 p.m. to the chime of church bells. I realized it was the protesters piping the music through their bullhorn.

    We walked through wood-paneled administrative offices, which smelled of disinfectant, into a long, low-ceilinged hallway where the public comes to visit inmates. We waited for several minutes - Hurst's colleagues standing at one end, the reporters a dozen yards behind. We chatted quietly. Those who'd witnessed previous executions explained how the procedures would work. Then a door opened and someone asked, "We ready?"

    We trooped into the chilly night air past three sets of chain link fencing before entering the death house.

    One room inside was reserved for Freeman's family and witnesses, and a couple of reporters with them. I would be witnessing the execution in a room for the victim's witnesses. Hurst's friends and the Wharton County District Attorney were there, along with other reporters and the prison officials.

    We stood clumped together in the long, narrow viewing area. Light brown curtains hung down the left side of the wall. A prison official warned us we'd be able to hear Freeman's last words through a box above us.

    I squeezed up behind Ross Kurtz, the district attorney.

    It is hard to describe the surreal strangeness of that moment, to be the fly on that wall. There, a few feet away, was a man about to die. Inches in front of me were the men whose colleague he'd killed and wanted him dead.

    In a room nearby, his family waited in agony, after years of exerting themselves trying to save his life.

    There was a weird, medical feeling to the whole thing.

    I tried not to make any noise and focus on everything going on around me, scribbling feverishly in my notebook, since I didn't have my recorder with me. It was pens and notebooks only in the prison.

    I peered through a window and a set of green bars to the death chamber inside, which looked vaguely like a hospital room. There were green walls and linoleum flooring. At its center, Freeman already lay on a metal gurney.

    The prison staff had covered him to his chest with a white sheet and strapped him down, leaving only his face and arms exposed. They had wrapped Ace bandages around his hands and inserted an IV into his arms, which were splayed out.

    Freeman's eyes were red. The 35-year-old's head was shaved, and he had a trace of stubble on his cheeks.

    He didn't betray any emotion, except for pursing his lips a couple of times. I wondered at the terror he must be feeling.

    The warden stood at the head of the gurney, ramrod straight, his hands clasped in front of him. He was wearing a brown suit with a long overcoat and a bright yellow tie.

    What he was thinking? How many executions had he presided over? How did he cope with this particular part of his job?

    A chaplain stood at the convict's feet. He held a small copy of the New Testament in his left hand, and he was resting his right hand on Freeman's leg.

    At 6:14 p.m., the warden asked Freeman if he had any last words.

    "No I do not," he said, almost whispering, his words caught by a microphone protruding from the ceiling.

    The drugs went in moments later.

    It looked like he was trying to keep his eyes open, for a few seconds, then they drifted shut. His chest rose a few times and he made a slight gasping sound.

    As with many other stories I've covered, it felt both intimate and intrusive. I was intensely aware of the scratching of my pen, the sounds of my notepad's pages as I turned them.

    There was another sound, too: From outside, the muffled roar of motorcycle engines from a group of bikers who'd traveled to the prison, in support of Hurst's family and the game wardens. It's something that often happens when a cop-killer is executed. The bikers travel to the prison in support of the cops, and rev their engines as the execution takes place, the last sound the killer hears.

    I wondered at its purpose. Was it to support the wardens? Or taunt and terrify Freeman? What was his family thinking when they heard it?

    We stood in silence as Freeman's breathing slowed, and his face and scalp reddened.

    At 6:19 p.m., after his breathing appeared to have stopped, one of the game warden patted his friends on the back. No one talked.

    I resisted a vague urge to cross myself, wondering if that would seem biased and inappropriate.

    I could feel my heart pounding. It was bizarre and strange, and at the same time, surprisingly anti-climactic.

    At 6:28 p.m, a doctor emerged and checked Freeman's vital signs. A few moments later, he called time of death: 6:30 p.m.

    We walked back outside a few minutes later. The game wardens disappeared. I saw Freeman's family leave, their faces streaked with tears.

    In the prison administration building, I called my editor.

    http://www.chron.com/about/article/M...on-6799218.php
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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